PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Diamond, Eugene F.
TI  - Letters to the Editor
DP  - 1980 Jun 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 1192--1193
VI  - 65
IP  - 6
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/65/6/1192.4.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/65/6/1192.4.full
SO  - Pediatrics1980 Jun 01; 65
AB  - I am writing with regard to the statement by the Committee on Adolescence "Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling" (Pediatrics 63:920, 1979). While this statement is, in many ways, forthright and sensitive, it nevertheless tends to perpetuate some of the unfortunate fallacies which surround a much controverted issue. First of all it identifies abortion as a "sexual matter." While it is true that sexual activity leads to pregnancy which may, in turn, lead to a request for abortion, the controversies regarding abortion are not merely sexual or even primarily sexual.